Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-02-19

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Mrs. J. II. March returned from
Scales Mound, I'll, on Tuesday night
after an absence of about two months.
Thursday was day that the hous'
anchor men should have been in thu
field. The house that did not rock wa
good one.
Misses Clara Bushman and Bessie
Kelly are engaged in transcribing thu
Cove county records from the Tregt
county books.
The civil suit between Alsop an(
Dyer, which was tried before Squire
Hutzel yesterday, was decided in favo
Of the former.
The depot platform is piled up will
freight SO as to make it almost impossible
after the departure of the local freight
trains these days.
Mr.. Geo. W. Pinkham returned te
his home in Port Huron, Mich, on Tues
day morning, after having spent the
winter with his son.
Jack Lewis went down the road Sun
day morning, to take his position as route
agent. He is running from Kansas City
| to Brookville at present.
&C. M. McClaren went down to Abb
lene on Monday morning and returned
Wednesday night. He reports that city
as having a great boom.
Mrs. C. NJ. Churchill, editor of the
queen Bee, a woman suffrage organ pub
ished in Denver, is working our town in
the interests of that journal
Mrs. Emmons will lecture before the
W. G. T. q. Saturday and Sunday even
ings, Goth and 9th of February, in the
Opera Hall. All are invited.
Grant Marshall returned from Ober-
lin on Thursday. He had been called to
that place to appear before the land
O4l1C0 DIS d NltuSSS LII u COuUSSU Case.
&C. M. Paul is making arrangements
to run street sprinkler on Franklin
street. The merchants are to pay small
monthly fee to defray the expenses.
Frank Cahan, of Murray, Idaho, is
visiting at the residence of J. A. Nelson.
Mr.. Cahan has been visiting friends in
Illinois, and is on his way back to Idaho.
L. E. Stair returned from eastern
Kansas Friday night. He had been
looking around with view to establish
ing larger gallery in some eastern
Kansas city.
Henry Jack is back again at his old
post at Harrison's meat market. He re-
turned Thursday night of last week, with
his brother, Loren, from Illinois, where
the both spent the winter.
Both of the passenger trains from
the east were delayed from two to three
hours. on Thursday, and Friday mornings
express from the west was also about
two hours late.
IF. M. Morgan, who resides on the
old Weckel place, about ten miles south
of town, lost Is head of cattle some time
ago. Their death was caused by eating
smut in the stalk field.
&c. B. Maxwell, the travelling freight
agent of the Union Pacific railway, was
town on Tuesday. He went out to the
Whiting Works with George Pinkham,
on tour af inspection.
j. w. Perry was arrested again on
Tuesday night, and his gambling appar-
atus seized. On Thursday he appeared
before Squire Hutzel, but had his case
continued until Friday next.
H. G. Bryant has moved his house.
hold goods into his new house, on Warren
avenue. Mrs. Bryant is expected home
tonight from the east, where she has
been visiting for the past year.
Mrs. J. B. Hathaway, assisted by
her evolutionary class, viii give an enter
tainment in Opera Hall Tuesday evening,
February %. The program viii consist
Of songs and selections, comprising hui
NOR, dramatic impersonation and char
acter sketches, Dutch, Irish and Scotch
etc. i